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Littlechild Family Tree

http://essex1841.com/Legacy/2780.htm

Romford 1914 Kelly's Directory

Littlechild Alfred, fishmonger, 17 Mildmay Road
http://historyofstratford.co.uk/Romford/1914/Romford-Commercial2.shtml


Thomas Littlechild Born: 1756 in Wickhambrook, Suffolk
http://www.raymillar.co.uk/grpf0658.html
Father was Thomas Littlechild Born: 1730 in Little Thurlow, Suffolk


Family of Michael Littlechild born 4th July 1951 in London, now living in Melbourne Australia
married Jennifer ne Newbegin

Children born Melbourne Australia
Simon Littlechild 3 September 1976
Aaron Littlechild 6 July 1979
Bridie Littlechild 26 July 1983

This unusual and interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from any of the various places in Scotland and Northern England, named with the Olde English pre 7th Century "niwe, neowe" (Middle English "newe", new), plus "bigging", building, house, a derivative of "big", to build. These places include: Newbiggin in Durham, noted as "Neubigin" in 1208; Newbiggin in Cumberland, appearing as "Neubigging" in the 1290 Charter Rolls of that county; and Newbiggin in Northumberland and Westmorland, recorded as "Neubigging" in 1208 and 1223 respectively. In the modern idiom the surname can be found as Newbigging, Newbegin, Neugbigging and Neubigin. Several places called Newbigging are located throughout Scotland, for example, in Midlothian, Fife, Dundee, Angus and Lanarkshire. In "Memoire of the Somervilles", it is noted that "the vil and lands of Newbigging in the parish of Carnwath, Lanarkshire, passed into possession of the Somervilles through marriage with the daughter and heiress of Walter de Newbigging about the middle of the 13th Century". Robert de Newbigging was noted in Westmorland County Records in 1314, and William de Newbiging was a tenant of the earl of Douglas in the parish of Linton in 1376. A Coat of Arms granted to Dr. William Newbigging, Scotland, in 1829 is a silver shield, on a red fess three escallops of the first, the Crest being an eagle rising proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alan de Neubigging, a knight appointed to settle the law of the marches, which was dated 1249, in the "Acts of Parliament of Scotland", during the reign of King Alexander 11, King of Scotland, 1214 - 1249. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Newbegin

John of Newbiggin pp 91-92

John of Newbiggin appears to have been in rebellion against the king, Henry III, in 1217 and they came to peace in October of that year... this might link up to what my grandfather said about our family name given as a pardon by the king? Went from John of Newbiggin to John de Newbiggin?

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pC8njhobGxQC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=john+de+newbiggin&source=bl&ots=LOJ0WVEFo-&sig=VHDb1p5h8RQhwBkthSxis-t3xOQ&hl=en&ei=JB2SSrnoKcSAkQWTr8y7Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The rebellion was called the ?First Baron?s War?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barons'_War

It is Alan of Galloway who is refered to regarding John of Newbegin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_of_Galloway

Origin of names in 13th-14th Century West Yorkshire
http://slumberland.org/sca/articles/west_yorkshire_local_names.pdf

- Adam del Neubiggen

EAST AND WEST NEWBIGGIN
EAST AND WEST NEWBIGGIN (Newbiggyng, xiv cent.), otherwise called Newbiggin by Sadberge to distinguish it from the place of the same name near Redworth, appears from references already given to have been considered sometimes as part of Little Stainton. The land was held of the bishop as of his Sadberge lordship by free tenants. In 1212 John de Newbiggin had 2 oxgangs of land by a rent of 3s. 6d., but they had been given by him to the hospital of Northallerton with the consent of Bishop Philip and the king, (fn. 47) and in 1535 the hospital had a rent of 10s. from Newbiggin. (fn. 48) About 1359 William de Newbiggin acquired a messuage and land from Thomas Hode. (fn. 49) According to Hatfield's Survey in 1384 Gilbert de Newbiggin and his fellows held 48 acres by rendering 24s.; the free tenants also rendered 13s. 4d., and paid 3s. 8d. for a meadow called Hawing. (fn. 50) Gilbert's son Thomas de Newbiggin (1413) held a messuage and 30 acres in Newbiggin by a rent of 2s. 6d., and another tenement of the same size jointly with his wife Elizabeth; his son John, aged twelve, was his heir. (fn. 51) This was the Thomas Gibson or Gilbertson of Newbiggin whose heirs in 1416 were the representatives of his aunts, Richard Wright, Robert Faucon, and John Hay, all over thirty. (fn. 52) Robert Faucon (1434) held lands in Newbiggin next Sadberge. (fn. 53) The wardship and marriage of his son Robert Faucon was in 1435 granted to John Hartburn. (fn. 54) Robert was dead in 1442. (fn. 55) Thomas Hay had held land in Newbiggin before 1405; his heir was a son John, (fn. 56) probably the John above-mentioned. Lawrence Hay (1498) was stated to have held his lands partly in chief, partly of Christopher Conyers. (fn. 57)

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42622
History and Antiquities of the counties of Westmorland?

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zeEuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&dq=William+de+Newbigging&source=bl&ots=J3CUwgs67Z&sig=9lbEbgnkzkqPkaraD6eTmHcTnCc&hl=en&ei=BuWNSs-UAsuBkQX5xuW7Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false

p366 Parish of Newbiggin mentions Robert de Newgiggin

Adam de Newbiggin p ix Ancient States and Borders
- appears to have been one of 12 Scottish knights listed in the year 1249

CALENDAR OF PATENT ROLLS
1317 Sept. 28. York.
Appointment, until All Saints Day, of Gilbert de Risshton and Thomas
York. de Neubigging to purvey for the king's use 100 quarters of wheat, 100
quarters of malt, and 100 quarters of beans in the parts of Holdernesse.
By K. on the information of the Steward

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e2v3/body/Edward2vol3page0028.pdf

EDWARD II
?
1319 FEB 26 York
Writ of aid for Thomas de Neubigging, king's clerk, appointed to lead
the 5 ships, which the king directed to be provided by the sheriff in the
county of Devon, to Ulster in Ireland, and to deliver them to John de
Athy, the king's admiral in Ireland and constable of the castle of Crakfergus,
for repelling the Scots. By K.

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e2v3/body/Edward2vol3page0313.pdf


NEWBIGGIN HALL.
When Robert de Crackanthorpe married Emma the heiress of the de Newbiggins, c. 1332, they removed to a defensive tower here. For the next two centuries the Crackanthorpes held high positions in the district. Knights of the Shire in many Parliaments, Sheriffs of Cumberland on other occasions, fighting for the House of Lancaster at Towton Field, and, during the whole period, marrying into such families as the Briscos, the Lancasters of Howgill, the Leyburns, Sandfords and Musgraves of Eden Hall. That they reared and held a strong tower of the late XIVth century therefore cannot be doubted and a few traces of it may still be found in the present pele. Vide, a newel stair with its entrance door at the foot, a garderobe and shaft within the thickness of the wall at the north-east angle, and fireplace flues behind and not beside one another.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43511#s4


1369, 6 March, Perth, Parliament
http://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fc&fn=davidii_trans&id=id585&query=&type=trans&variants=

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And for the barons? part to discuss the general business as above, these lords were chosen: the steward of Scotland, [Robert the Steward,] earl of Strathearn, [Thomas], earl of Mar, and [George de Dunbar, earl of] March, the procurator of the lord [William Douglas,] earl of Douglas, Sir Archibald de Douglas, Sir Robert de Erskine, Sir William de Keith, Sir Walter de Leslie, Sir James de Douglas, Sir David de Graham, Sir Walter de Haliburton, Sir Alexander de Lindsay, Sir William de Dishington, Sir David, son of Walter, Sir Roger Mortimer, Sir John of Strachan and Sir Robert Dalziel, knights, John de Lorne, Gillespic Campbell, John Kennedy, Alan de Erskine, William de Newbigging, Alexander de Cockburn, William de Meldrum and Thomas de Irvine.

Kirkbythore.
167. (C. p. 132; D. art. 81).?Laurence f. Robert the seneschal, de Neubigging, grants to Holmcoltran his share of the marsh between the monks and him, within the dyke made by the monks with his consent between Neubigging and them. Also common pasture for 360 sheep, 20 cows, one bull and 30 oxen in the field of Neubigging. [Date as no. 161.]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49510

A seneschal was an officer in the houses of important nobles in the Middle Ages. In the French administrative system of the Middle Ages, the s?n?chal was also a royal officer in charge of justice and control of the administration in southern provinces, equivalent to the northern French bailli. It is equivalent to Slavic stolnik.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneschal

Marriages from the Horton Registers (1665-1837
28 Jun 1711 Robert Newbegin = Mary Watson
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/Transcriptions/NBL/HOR.html
Mary Watson 1 was born about 1685. She was christened on 28 Feb 1685 in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, England

Burials from the Longbenton Registers (1813-1826)
19 Oct 1822 Thomas Newbegin of Closing Hill aged 85
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/Transcriptions/NBL/BLBN1813.html

Index to the Captains Registers of Lloyd?s of London (Guildhall Library Ms 18567) ??

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capsN.pdf

Art, identity and devotion in fourteenth-century England

The Des Bois Hours

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gc7FfUF5WJcC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=des+bois+normandy+lords&source=bl&ots=2k9vLuuNGy&sig=H4FltndWl3juac2kUMl4RowPQx8&hl=en&ei=4WOTSoOBJM2MkAWQytC7Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Millan Desbois Born: 1646 at: Autun, Burgundy, France
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~gmorgan/aaFamily%20Hist/fam00001.htm

The Huguenots - Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and ... By Samuel Smiles
Millan Desbois was a farmer who died in 1679. His wife?s father took over the property and talked his daughter into putting the children in the Convent of Lazare, Autun
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d3AEVKy1gf4C&pg=PA385&lpg=PA385&dq=lazarus+desbois+burgundy&source=bl&ots=05kVbo6v-w&sig=g7_kq_vUxv8--ORlXrMcdovM83w&hl=en&ei=23STSv_QMIzq6gOThrXxAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=lazarus%20desbois%20burgundy&f=false

Lazarus DESBOIS
Born: APR 1670 at: Autun, Burgundy, France 1
Married: 6 SEP 1701 at: St Martin (French Church), Soho, London, Eng. 1
Died: 23 OCT 1734 at: St Giles, London, Eng. 1
Father:Millan DESBOIS
Mother:Lazarin PAULET
Other Spouses:
Wife: Marguerite LOIZEL

Born: 20 AUG 1672 at: Quintin, Brittany France

Lazarus fled to Amsterdam in 1692, and in 1699 to England. He became a cabinet maker in Soho http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DDF3mn8473wC&pg=PA903&lpg=PA903&dq=lazarus+desbois&source=bl&ots=_lTK6BnRN9&sig=ANC-gwLKeYeysSlEPttwCnk0_T8&hl=en&ei=43KTSqi5FYPe7APisZz7AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=lazarus%20desbois&f=false

Huguenots in English Sea Ports in the Late 17th Century

http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/repository/81000029.pdf

- protestants fleeing



Autun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autun

and

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.dessureaultdamerique.org/ancetres.htm&ei=ZX2TSt7zM8PIkAWf6si7Cg&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddesbois%2Bautun%2Bfrance%2B1646%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D10

Lazarus Desbois Born: 26 FEB 1708 at: Soho, London, Eng
Theodorus Lewis Desbois Born: 1735 at: London, Eng.

Michael DESBOIS

Born: ABT 1768 at: 1
Married: 8 NOV 1789 at: Marylebone, Middlesex, Eng. 2
Died: UNKNOWN at:
Father:Theodorus Lewis DESBOIS
Mother:Ann [--?--]
Other Spouses:

Wife: Frances FALL

Daniel DESBOIS

Born: 13 JUN 1810 at: St Leonards, Shoreditch, Middlesex, Eng. 1
Married: 13 MAY 1832 at: St Mary's, Islington, London, Eng. 2
Died: 1893 at: Hackney, London, Middlesex, Eng. 3
Father:Michael DESBOIS
Mother:Frances FALL
Other Spouses:

Wife: Ann SKIDMORE

John James DESBOIS

Born: 26 DEC 1843 at: Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Eng. 1
Married: 20 DEC 1863 at: Islington, London, Middlesex, Eng. 2
Died: UNKNOWN at:
Father:Daniel DESBOIS
Mother:Ann SKIDMORE
Other Spouses:

Wife: Anna SUMMERFIELD

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~gmorgan/aaFamily%20Hist/fam00264.htm

This is as far as these families records go with our line of the family
- no connections for John Daniel Desbois
- my findings below starting with the 1881 Census of John James Desbois household

















1881 census transcription details for: 29, Windsor St, Islington
National Archive Reference:
RG number: RG11 Piece: 253 Folio: 131 Page: 50


Reg. District: Islington Sub District: Islington East
Enum. District: Ecclesiastical District:
Parish: Islington City/Municipal Borough:

Address: 29, Windsor St, Islington
County:
Middlesex


Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation,
Disability Where Born

DESBOIS, John J Head Married M 36 1845 Frame Maker (Carver & Gilder) Middlesex

DESBOIS, Anne Wife Married F 37 1844 Middlesex

DESBOIS, Chas Son Single M 15 1866 Book Binder Middlesex

DESBOIS, Anne Flo Daughter Single F 13 1868 Scholars Middlesex

DESBOIS, Ada J Daughter Single F 10 1871 Scholars Middlesex

DESBOIS, Eliza M Daughter Single F 8 1873 Scholars Middlesex

DESBOIS, John D Son Single M 5 1876 Scholars Middlesex

DESBOIS, George F Son Single M 3 1878 Scholars Middlesex

DESBOIS, William E Son Single M 0 1881 Middlesex








John Daniel Desbois aged 31 at 1911 Census, married to Rose
- Charles Henry was 4 yrs old at the time
- I have a copy saved on file

Charles Henry DESBOIS Born 20 June 1907 Islington vol 1b p. 287
- Died 1988 Tower Hamlet
- wifes maiden name Eaton
- son

Edward Desbois Born 16 FEB 1939 Shoreditch VOL 1Q P 67
Married Valerie Hoy
-Edward John Desbois son 31 March 1963
-Terrance Desbois son
-Marie Desbois daughter
???????????.


Another families record
- DESBOIS -

Desbois, Charles Henry, Born Jun 20 1907, Died 1988 in Tower Hamlets

Desbois, Daisy, Born May 11 1922, Died 2005 in Tower Hamlets

Desbois, Edward John, Born 1876, Died 1951 in Bethnal Green

Desbois, Edward John, Born 1918, Died 2002 in Tower Hamlets

This is another family with a connection
http://www.tribalpages.com/family-tree/handaros